Welcome to the Winter Season of 2023
Join use via play.ecc.eco this holiday season!
We have lots of things planned for you this month.

Quarterly Events Raffle:
Ticket distributions will resume during the festival games and during various other events held throughout the next few weeks.
Check out the thread linked here if you are unfamiliar with the Quarterly Events Raffle.
https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/.217691/

Secret Santa:
That's right - with Thanksgiving out and Christmas in, it's time to sign up for Secret Santa.
It will be hosted exclusively on Main this year, in the Winter Festival town built specifically for this Holiday Season.
https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/.224584/

IRL Scavenger Hunt:
Hosted via the Discord for ease of use with mobile images.
The IRL Scavenger Hunt will be hosted throughout the month of December.
https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/.223132/

Winter Festival Town:
Located at /warp wf, /warp festival or /warp winterfestival on Main.
This year features a new custom-built town featuring all-new redstone games where you can win prizes, collectible items, or raffle tickets for the Quarterly Raffle.

Each of the redstone games will require a token to play. This year the games require Nether Stars to play.
You can buy nether stars from other users, as well as, every day you can /vote on each of the 12 sites, then trade your votepoints for nether stars in the /voteshop.
This town will also host several random event games as well, stay tuned for those.

Where/How to get Prizes:
All prizes can be redeemed at /warp redeem on Main or MainNorth, you will find ECD Vouchers, Cosmo Coin Vouchers and Crate Key Vouchers distributed from the games.
Raffle Tickets are to be sold to Ediouseig via /warp redeem to be counted in the Raffle.

Rules:
Absolutely no cheating at the games.
If you abuse the games in any way that disrupts other users or allows you to earn more prizes than intended, you risk being banned from the event town, and your raffle ticket entries earned since the festival launch will be wiped. There is no appeal to this fate.

We will offer rewards for exploits/vulnerabilities reported to me privately with any of the festival games. If you think you have found one, simply forum PM ClarinetPhoenix the details.
Abuse = Ban
Report = Rewards

Games:
This year the Festival has been outfitted with all new prize-dispensing machines in each of the games. These machines hold even more prizes than ever before. They should not run out of the "good stuff" after a couple hours and hopefully will require less frequent restocks. Since the design has been completely revamped we are now able to use TARGETS to shoot at rather than buttons. Enjoy.

Chicken Archery
Cost: 1 Nether Star
There are three locations for this game spread out across Winter Festival. Once you pay your nether star and enter the game you must shoot all the chickens that fall from above. If you miss a chicken you will lose and the game will end. The longer you can shoot all the chickens before they hit the bottom the more prizes you will win.

Log Cabin Prize Drops
Cost: 1 Nether Star
Prize Drops have returned with all new machines enabling us to offer you up to 81 different prizes.
Its pretty straightforward. Use your Nether Stars to trade for 1 of 81 prizes.
Prizes do rotate on some days.
Prize rotations will be announced as needed.

Sakura Caves Roller Coaster
Cost: 1 Nether Star
Use your Nether Star to enter through the door, then grab a minecart, place at the start and take off.
Enjoy this wild ride through icy caves that are heavily decorated with the sweet smelling cherry trees. During your ride you must arm yourself with a bow and shoot the targets placed along the track to earn prizes.

Deepslate Wonders Roller Coaster
Cost: 1 Nether Star
Use your Nether Star to enter through the door, then grab a minecart, place at the start and take off.
Enjoy this wild ride through a medieval deepslate castle scene. During your ride you must arm yourself with a bow and shoot the targets placed along the track to earn prizes.
Spoiler: Winter Festival Parkours
This year features two brand new LimeLush parkour challenges. The difficulties are Easy and Hard. There are EcoDollar prizes (10k and 25k respectively) and a lore'd item for completing each Parkour. You can claim the parkour prize if you complete it once per 24hours.

Twelve Days of Christmas: Starts December 13th.
Starting on December 13th, there will be a set of unique items pertaining to 12 Days of Christmas released either as random drops or as part of the redstone game prizes in the festival town. Be sure to participate in the redstone games each day to increase your chance of landing one of these items.

That's all so far. Go forth and enjoy the events. We hope to see you all there.